Where The ‘Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies’ Reside

This week The Wall Street Journal and VentureSource ranked the top 50 U.S. venture-backed companies with the most potential to become “the next big thing.” You can check out the list, along with the methodology, here.

We thought we’d take a look at where these companies reside. After all, if these are the next Ciscos, Microsofts and Amgens, which cities and states will claim bragging rights?

Let’s be clear – it’s hard to draw hard conclusions from such a tiny sliver of the 10,000-plus venture-backed companies out there, and many stellar start-ups just missed making this list (or were excluded because their valuation was above $1 billion). But the study is interesting, nonetheless.